Resume Objective
Skilled Hadoop Developer with 4 years of experience designing and optimising big data pipelines on Hadoop ecosystems for financial services and telecommunications clients. Seeking a data engineering role where I can leverage distributed computing expertise to solve large-scale analytics challenges.
Key Skills to Highlight
- Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, YARN, MapReduce)
- Apache Spark & PySpark
- Hive, HBase, & Pig
- Kafka & Flume for data ingestion
- SQL & HiveQL query optimisation
- Cloudera & Hortonworks (CDP) administration
- Python & Java scripting
Sample Work Experience Bullets
- Designed and maintained Hadoop-based ETL pipelines processing over 10TB of raw data daily.
- Migrated batch MapReduce jobs to Apache Spark, achieving a 5x improvement in processing throughput.
- Developed Hive queries and partitioning strategies to optimise data warehouse query performance.
- Configured Kafka producers and consumers for real-time data ingestion from upstream transactional systems.
- Monitored cluster health on Cloudera Manager and tuned resource allocation for optimal job scheduling.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field from an accredited university.
Relevant Certifications
- Cloudera Certified Associate (CCA) Data Analyst
- Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark
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